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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes about Age

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We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Jean de la Bruyere
Love Life, Age, Dread
"Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Young, Prudence

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Becoming, Certain

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Old Age

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, One Day

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Genius, Moments

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Jean de la Bruyere
Life, Birthday, Age

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Able, Not Sure

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

Jean de la Bruyere
Wrinkles, Age, Dresses

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